Africa and Africans

Who said: "A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture, is like a tree without roots"

ACTIVISTS: In a 1999 BBC poll, who did African's vote as the most important African of the 20th Century?

RANDOM: According to the WHO, 77% of Chinese women bleach their skin, compared to 40% of Nigerian women.

ACTIVIST: Which Bob Marley song lyrics are the speech given by Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, to the UN in 1963?

SLAVERY: Which was the first African state to to abolish slavery in 1932?

RANDOM: Which movie featured the Public Enemy song "Fight the Power"?

COLONIALISM: The Berlin Conference began the process of carving up Africa.

RANDOM: "Arranging reproduction within humans to increase the inheritance of desirable characteristics" is called...

SLAVERY: The Transatlantic Slave Trade took place between Britain, Africa and the Americas?

RANDOM: 160m+ Indians are considered "Untouchable" - people tainted by their caste system as impure and less than human

BRITISH: Old currency, the guinea, is named after the West African country due to an African being a unit of currency.

RANDOM: Name the first Somali-American to be elected to the US Congress and lauded as 'a woman to change the world'

ACTIVIST: Sojourner Truth reclaimed her son and became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.

NOBLES: Which of the following African kingdoms no longer exists today?

BRITISH: In 1731, Lord Mayor of London banned black people from holding company apprenticeships because of white fear.

RANDOM: Which of the following black men did NOT die in UK police custody?

ACTIVISTS: What ideology influenced C L R James, Huey Newton and Che Guevara?

RESOURCES: The worlds largest diamond was found in South Africa in which year?

NOBLES: Cisse, Kilukeni, Almoravid, Sefuwa, Barca, Changamire, Kushite, Keita were once ALL royal African dynasties?

LAND: What was the first sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence?

ACTIVIST: Which of these statements is NOT true about the legendary Jamaican maroon leaders who fought the British...

ACTIVIST: Black Panther activist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, has been in prison for over 40 years for...

SLAVERY: Where did the most successful slave rebellion take place?

NOBLES: Queen Victoria saved an Egbado chiefs daughter and became godmother to her child whose descendants live in Lagos

LAND: "Africa" is a Latin word, derived from "Afri" used to describe black people living on the Tunisian shoreline.

SLAVERY: In 1835, £20m (£300bn today) was given to slavers for the abolition of the slave trade. The debt was repaid by

BRITISH: When did the first post-war Caribbean immigrants come to London on SS Windrush? And when was this curtailed?

ACTIVIST: The 1945 Manchester pan-African Congress, calling for an end to colonial rule in the Caribbean was led by...

Who said: "I am not African because I was born in Africa. I am African because Africa was born in me"

NOBLES: Name the black Queen that preceded Meghan Markle in becoming a member of the British royal family...

BRITISH: Black men first appear in British records in the 12th Century. Black women appear 200 years later.

SLAVERY: In the 18th Century, kings in which west African country were big players in the African slave trade?

SLAVERY: The Birth of a Nation was a film about a slave rebellion in 1831 led by Nat Turner, ancestor of Tina Turner.

SLAVERY: What is the name of the slave owner who's statue was pulled down in the Bristol protests last weekend?

RESOURCES: The Democratic Republic of Congo has half of the world's reserves of which mineral?

SLAVERY: Kru people of Liberia and Ivory Coast vehemently resisted enslavement. What other skill were they famed for?

Who said: "To most white people, jazz means black and dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music"

COLONIALISM: During World War I, the first and last shots fired were in Africa.

SLAVERY: How many Africans were estimated to have been captured and taken against their will to the Americas?

LAND: What's the biggest country in Africa (by land area)?

NOBLES: Which country is predicted to become Africa's first global superpower by the end of the century?

SLAVERY: In which century did the association between Africa and slavery emerge?

LAND: What was the first African independent republic?

NOBLES: Warrior Queen Amina was from which country?

ACTIVISTS: Move, the Philadelphia black liberation movement, ended in 1985 when the...

Who said: "If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions"

NOBLES: The innovative military skills of which King led to Zulu warriors being famed for exceptional combat skills?

BRITISH: Which part of London did runaway black servants flee to?

RANDOM: Rachel Anne Dolezal has legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo.

RANDOM: Canasol, the first medical treatment for glucoma, was developed by Prof Manley West and Dr Albert Lockhart from

SLAVERY: Which European country was particularly keen on the slave trade?

RANDOM: The movie, Hotel Rwanda, is about the Rwandan Genocide - ethnic cleansing of the Hutu's by the Tutsi's

ACTIVIST: Leading black-nationalist, Robert Mugabe, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1981.

NOBLES: Military leader, Queen Nzingha of Angola, resisted Portuguese invasion and slave raids for how many years?

ACTIVIST: Aged 76, Nelson Mandela voted for the first time in an election, and became President of South Africa.

NOBLES: Ancient Ghana encompassed which three countries?

Who said: "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"

COLONIALISM: A tribal war over cattle grazing led to Germany issuing an extermination order on which Namibian tribe?

COLONIALISM: The "Scramble for Africa" from 1881-1914 sought to liberate Africa from the Arab controlled slave trade.

ORIGINS: Which African tribe were thought to be the first to migrate across Africa?

LAND: Ancient mathematical systems originate in Egypt.

RESOURCES: What are the three most powerful African countries today?

LAND: Cameroon Anglophone people are originally from Nigeria.

RANDOM: East Londoner, Ramarni Wilfred, aged 16, has an IQ higher than Bill Gates and the estimated 160 of Einstein

SLAVERY: Slavery was legal in Britain until which year? Britain then declared slave trading illegal in...?

Who said: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"

COLONIALISM: What was the single most profitable export out of Congo in the 19th Century?

COLONIALISM: What percentage of the African continent did the Europeans rule from the 19 Century onwards?

RESOURCES: Which city in Africa is home to one of the five biggest hospitals in the world?

NOBLES: Eware the Great was the King of which Empire?

ACTIVISTS: Trinidadian, Kwame Ture, was identified by the FBI as most likely to succeed Malcolm X as the 'black messiah'

BRITISH: Pre-20 Century, black people made up what percentage of the London population?

ORIGINS: The oldest human remains were found in Ethiopia, but how old were they?

NOBLES: Kush, Punt, Aksum, Mali, Songhai and The Great Zimbabwe were once ALL powerful African empires?

SLAVERY: The statue of Robert Milligan, who shipped 526 slaves to Jamaica, was taken down from in front of which museum?

Who said: "It's impossible for a white person today to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism."

RANDOM: "The systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial and/or religious groups to create ethnic homogenity"

SLAVERY: Approximately how many Africans were forcibly taken from the continent in to slavery?

RESOURCES: What preceded the African Union, with the mission to propel a united continent towards peace and prosperity?

COLONIALISM: Which murderous European king led the atrocities in Congo, reducing the population by half over 40 years?

LAND: Which European country did the Moors conquer?

BRITISH: In the 18 Century, black men outnumbered black women and intermarriage among the races became common.

RANDOM: Which classical music composer is said to be of African heritage?

LAND: How many countries are there in Africa?

RESOURCES: Shea butter grows in how many African countries?

SLAVERY: When slavery ended in Britain, black people became ornaments for British noble society.

NOBLES: Infamous Amazon women were part of which West African King's army?

ACTIVISTS: What is the name of the prominent Jamaican leader of the pan-Africanist ideology and political movement?

RANDOM: Which insect inspired the "Bill Gates of Africa", Phillip Emeagwali, to develop the worlds first supercomputer?

NOBLES: Togo, Gabon, Equitorial Guinea, Uganda, DR Congo and South Africa ALL have dynasties that exist today?

RESOURCES: Approximately, how much is Africa's total foreign debt?

SLAVERY: Approximately how many people did European slave ships take in to slavery from the West Coast of Africa?

RESOURCES: From which country does coffee originate?

ACTIVISTS: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz is more commonly known by what name?

SLAVERY: The first recorded American slave revolt took place in 1663 in which state?

Who said: "Africa must revert to what it was before imperialists divided it. There are divisions which we will remove."

RANDOM: Which case of American police brutality led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement?

RANDOM: "indirect, subtle or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalised group" is described as...

NOBLES: The richest man that ever lived is Mansa Musa. Which empire did he rule?

NOBLES: Dora Milaje, the female warriors featured in the Black Panther movie, were based on the Dahomy Amazons.